Line S8 is a line on the

Munich S-Bahn The Munich S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn München) is an Railway electrification system, electric rail transit system in Munich, Germany. "S-Bahn" is the German abbreviation for ''Stadtschnellbahn'' (literally, "urban rapid rail"), and the Munich S-Bahn ...

network. It is operated by

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. It runs from Herrsching via Weßling,

Pasing Pasing is a district in the city of Munich, Germany, and part of the borough Pasing-Obermenzing. Overview Pasing is located west of the Munich city centre, at the north-western edge of the city's innermost traffic zone. The district is mainly res ...

, central Munich and Munich East to Munich Airport station. The line operates at 20-minute intervals between Weßling and Munich Airport. Two out of three trains an hour continue from Weßling to Herrsching, so that the gap between trains alternates between 20 and 40 minutes. It is operated using class 423 four-car electrical multiple units, usually as two coupled sets. In the evenings and on Sundays, they generally run as single sets. The line runs over sections built at various times: *from Herrsching to Pasing over the

Munich–Herrsching railway The Munich–Herrsching railway is a branch line from Munich-Pasing to Herrsching in the German state of Bavaria. It is operated by DB Netz AG and is integrated into the Munich S-Bahn as part of line S8. The railway line is duplicated from Muni ...

, opened on 1 July 1903 by the

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*from Pasing to the beginning of the S-Bahn trunk line over tracks running parallel to the

Munich–Augsburg railway The Munich–Augsburg line connects Munich and Augsburg in the German state of Bavaria. It was built by the Munich-Augsburg Railway Company and opened in 1840. It was nationalised in 1846 and extended to Ulm in 1854. The line between Augsburg and ...

, opened by the

Munich–Augsburg Railway Company The Munich–Augsburg Railway Company (''München-Augsburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft''), the second private railway company in Bavaria, built the Munich–Augsburg line between 1838 and 1840. It was nationalised in 1846 and became part of the Roya ...

on 1 September 1839 *the S-Bahn trunk line from the approaches to

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(''Hauptbahnhof'') to

Munich East station Munich East station (german: Bahnhof München Ost, also called ''München Ostbahnhof'' in regional services) is a railway station in Munich, the state capital of Bavaria, Germany. It opened as Haidhausen station in 1871 on the new Munich–Müh ...

, opened on 1 May 1971 *from Munich East to Ismaning over the Munich East–Ismaning railway, opened by the Royal Bavarian State Railways. The section through Ismaning was placed underground in 1992 and the section through Unterföhring station in 2005. *from Ismaning to Munich Airport over a section of the

Munich East–Munich Airport railway The Munich East–Munich Airport railway is a double-track and electrified main line in the German state of Bavaria that connects the city of Munich to Munich Airport, which is located 30 kilometres to the northeast. It is operated of DB Netz AG a ...

opened by

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in 1992. S-Bahn services commenced in 1992 as S-Bahn line between Munich Airport and Pasing. It was later merged with line , which had previously run between Nannhofen (now

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) and Ismaning. Since December 2009, line has run from Pasing to Herrsching instead of Mammendorf, taking over a section of the former line from Herrsching to Ebersberg.

Operation

# Munich Airport – Herrsching # Munich Airport – Weßling # Munich East (Ostbahnhof) – Germering-Unterpfaffenhofen/Gilching-Argelsried (''Monday to Friday only'')

References

{{Munich transport network Munich S-Bahn lines 1992 establishments in Germany